Apparatus and method for estimating utterance style of each sentence in documents, and non-transitory computer readable medium thereof

US9280967B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9280967-B2
Application numberUS-201113232478-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateSep 14, 2011
Priority dateMar 18, 2011
Publication dateMar 8, 2016
Grant dateMar 8, 2016

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According to one embodiment, an apparatus for supporting reading of a document includes a model storage unit, a document acquisition unit, a feature information extraction, and an utterance style estimation unit. The model storage unit is configured to store a model which has trained a correspondence relationship between first feature information and an utterance style. The first feature information is extracted from a plurality of sentences in a training document. The document acquisition unit is configured to acquire a document to be read. The feature information extraction unit is configured to extract second feature information from each sentence in the document to be read. The utterance style estimation unit is configured to compare the second feature information of a plurality of sentences in the document to be read with the model, and to estimate an utterance style of the each sentence of the document to be read.

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What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus for supporting reading of a document, comprising: a memory that stores computer executable units; processing circuitry that executes the computer executable units stored in the memory; a model storage unit, executed by the processing circuitry, that stores a model which has been trained with a correspondence relationship between a first feature vector and an utterance style, the first feature vector being extracted from a plurality of sente…

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What does patent US9280967B2 cover?
According to one embodiment, an apparatus for supporting reading of a document includes a model storage unit, a document acquisition unit, a feature information extraction, and an utterance style estimation unit. The model storage unit is configured to store a model which has trained a correspondence relationship between first feature information and an utterance style. The first feature inform…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Fume Kosei, Suzuki Masaru, Morita Masahiro, and 7 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G10L13/10. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Mar 08 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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